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• Access 2010 Create ribbon

  17 Nov 2009

  Web databases introduced a few ribbon design challenges, particularly how to present client and web create options? We wanted to make sure that people creating client objects are just as successful as web objects. When you create a new database from scratch, you have two options: either to open a blank...
• Using the ShowToolbar Method to Hide the Ribbon

  16 Oct 2009

  Today’s guest blogger is Edwin Blancovitch. Edwin is president of Advanced Developers.net , creators of Easy Payroll , a software package to manage your human resources, payroll, scheduling, time and attendance needs. I have been using the ribbon for the last two years and I like it so much, however...
• Simplifying Ribbon Modification at Runtime

  27 Apr 2009

  Access MVP Albert Kallal has developed a Ribbon class object that you can use to simplify modifying Ribbon commands at runtime. The office ribbon is an amazing new interface. The problem with the ribbon is that takes a lot of code to change the ribbon at runtime. Solution: With my ribbon class you can...
• Review of ribbon design tool

  27 Mar 2009

  Access MVP Garry Robinson and editor of vb123.com recently wrote a nice review article on IBDE Ribbon Creator . You all should find it enlightening. http://www.databasejournal.com/features/msaccess/article.php/3803996/Making-Your-Own-Access-2007-Ribbon.htm
• Built-in Tab Names in Access Ribbons

  10 Dec 2008

  If you've tried to create a Ribbon customization that included one of the built-in controls in Access you've probably seen that you can use the Customize page in the Access Options dialog to get the names of groups and controls. You can also download the entire list of controls from the Microsoft web...
• Tell me about how you are extending the Ribbon

  3 Apr 2008

  I'm thinking about putting together a blog post that shows what the community has done with ribbon extensibility. From my conversations with lots of developers people are still trying to wrap their heads around the new user model It seems that having a few examples might stimulate some ideas. This will...
• New update for Ribbon Creator

  27 Mar 2008

  Avenius Gunter's Ribbon Creator just got better. Earlier this month he released version 1.1016 with a number of changes: New Features: Callback "getVisible" integrated in Ribbon XML. Callback "getEnabled" integrated in Ribbon XML. Tab Finish: Option to disable the Help Button on the...
• The story of the Office Ribbon

  13 Mar 2008

  Some of you may have already seen this posted in Jensen’s blog.  Jensen is the GPM of the Office User Experience team and was the lead for the implementation of the Ribbon in Office 2007.  Last week at the MIX conference in Las Vegas, Jensen presented “The Story of the Ribbon”...
• New Ribbon Reference: RibbonX for Dummies

  5 Jan 2008

  Those of you out there building custom Ribbon UI for Access/Office might be interested to know that the Dummies folks have recently released a guide for building Ribbon UI titled (as you might expect) " RibbonX for Dummies ".  The book is a general guide to building Ribbon XML, and it...
• Access Ribbon Customizer

  5 Dec 2007

  One of our Access support leads, Claton Hendricks, has put together a tool he calls Access Ribbon Customizer for Access developers who need to build custom ribbons. This tool is slightly reminiscent of (though not exactly the same as) the built-in command bar customization in Access 2003. It has a visual...
• Ribbon Customization - Repurposing Commands

  10 Oct 2007

  Sue and I were talking the other day about Ribbon customizations with regard to some training materials that she is preparing for our support engineers. Along the way I mentioned command repurposing and how you could do some pretty cool stuff with it in Access applications. She suggested that this might...
• Access 2003 --> Access 2007 UI Guide

  4 Oct 2007

  The Access help team has just finished up our new interactive guide for users moving from 2003 to 2007. The guide is a flash based tutorial which allows you to select a command from the 2003 Access UI, and then see where it has moved to in the 2007 ribbon.
• Ribbon Customization: Using a dynamicMenu to Show a List of Open Objects

  28 Sep 2007

  This is the third post in my short three-part series on ribbon customizations in Access. In the previous post, I showed how you could fill a dropdown with a list of the open forms in the database. This time, we'll fill a dynamicMenu control in a ribbon customization with a list of open objects of any...
• Ribbon Customization: Filling Dropdown Lists

  25 Sep 2007

  In the previous post, I showed you how to create a simple customization to close the currently open object. Continuing along the lines of adding object helpers to an application, we'll add two dropdown lists to a customization to work with forms. The first will list all forms in a database and the second...
• Ribbon Customization - Closing the Currently Open Object

  24 Sep 2007

  In a previous post, I talked about how much I enjoy developing solutions that use the new Office Fluent Ribbon UI. Along those lines, this post is the first of three upcoming posts on some specific customizations I've used in some applications recently. The general scenario is a ribbon customization...
• Creating item templates for Ribbon customizations to use in Visual Studio

  22 Aug 2007

  Despite my passion for all things related to code, I've always had a soft spot for UI that is exciting both in its "coolness" factor and visual appeal. Along those lines, one of my favorite new features in Access 2007 is Ribbon Extensibility . Writing the XML for a customization can be a bit of a bear...
• Ribbon Customizer

  25 Jun 2007

  For those of you who have been struggling a little with Ribbon customization in Access 2007 and miss the old world of CommandBars where you could design the command experience directly through the UI, Patrick Schmid has a cool add-in that allows you to make graphical design changes to your Ribbons from...
• Customizing the New Access UI

  13 Jul 2006

  I described the new Access UI in this post and this post way back in March. Now I'll run through how you program the ribbon UI using VBA. In a future post (we're still working out the content) I'll do another post on how to do the same thing using macros (so the app will run in disabled mode). Customized...
• More Access UI - Ribbons for the Design Views

  24 Mar 2006

  In yesterday's post, I skipped the design view of the ribbons for all the objects simply to save space, but as one of the commenters noted these are quite interesting for developers. So here they are! Sorry I didn't get 'em in yesterday's post. Table Design As I showed in the Starting from Scratch post...
• New Office UI in Access 12

  23 Mar 2006

  At long last, I can show and discuss the new Ribbon UI in Access 12. There have been a few comments asking about this in the blog, and I haven't been able to show the whole thing yet (anyone that has seen the Beta 1 version of Access will find this layout quite different, although the concepts are the...